John the Baptizer and Prophet
A Socio-Historical Study
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 1991
446 pages
978-0-567-31429-1 (ISBN)
Description
Using recent methodological advances in historical Jesus research, this book examines the figure of John by focusing on the two characteristic roles which he publicly performed-baptizer and prophet. The significance of these roles is studied within the context of late Second Temple Judaism in order to understand John within his social and historical context. Part I examines the traditions concerning John in Josephus's Antiquities as well as in canonical and extra canonical Gospels. Part II studies John's role as baptizer by analysing the functions of ablutions in the Old Testament and Second Temple Jewish literature, especially the Qumran literature. Part III analyses John's public role of prophet. John is seen as the leader of a prophetic movement, whose sociopolitical orientation may be compared with similar movements of the period.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-567-31429-1 (9780567314291)
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Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He is the executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Sage) and of the monograph series Library of Historical Jesus Studies (a subset of LNTS, T&T Clark). He is the author of John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) and more recently the co-editor with Kathleen Corley of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History (Continuum, 2004) and with John Kloppenborg of Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (T&T Clark, 2007).
Content
- Cover
- Editorial Board
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- PART I: THE TRADITIONS CONCERNING JOHN
- Chapter 2 THE TRADITIONS CONCERNING JOHN THE BAPTIST IN JOSEPHUS'ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS AND OTHER NON-CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
- Chapter 3 THE TRADITIONS CONCERNING JOHN THE BAPTIST IN EARLY CHRISTIAN GOSPELS
- PART II: JOHN AS BAPTIZER
- Chapter 4 ABLUTIONS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH LITERATURE
- Chapter 5 ABLUTIONS IN THE QUMRAN LITERATURE
- Chapter 6 THE ADMINISTRATION AND FUNCTIONS OF JOHN'S BAPTISM
- PART III: JOHN AS PROPHET
- Chapter 7 JUDGMENT/RESTORATION FIGURES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH LITERATURE
- Chapter 8 JOHN'S PROCLAMATION OF AN EXPECTED FIGURE
- Chapter 9 PROPHETIC FIGURES IN LATE SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM
- Chapter 10 THE SOCIO-POLITICAL ORIENTATION OF JOHN'S PROPHETIC MINISTRY
- Chapter 11 CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Literature
- Index of Modern Authors
